History/Magic

||[[Hermes Trismegistus]]|| || ||

||[[Simon Magus]]|| ||Biblical magician||

||[[Apollonius of Tyana]]||c. 1 - 100|| ||

||[[Abramelin the Mage]]|| || ||

||[[Christian Rosenkreuz]]||1378 - 1484|| ||

||[[Basil Valentine]]||1394 - ? ||Alchemist extraordinaire. Discovered antimony||

||[[Johannes Trithemius]]||1462 - 1516||''Steganographia''||

||[[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]]||1486 - 1535|| ||

||[[Paracelsus]]||1493 - 1541 ||Physician. Father of toxicology||

||[[Dr John Dee]]||1527 - 1609||Court magician to Elizabeth I||

||[[Giordano Bruno]]||1548 - 1600||''The Art of Memory''. Burned at the stake||

||[[Edward Kelley]]||1555 - 1597||Scryed with Dee||

||[[Isaac Newton]]||1643 - 1727||Alchemist and scientist. FRS||

||[[Emanuel Swedenborg]]||1688 - 1772|| ||

||[[William Blake]]||1757 - 1827||''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell''||

||[[Eliphas Levi]]||1810 - 1875||French Magus. Influence on Crowley||

||[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]||1831 - 1891||Theosophy -- literally 'knowledge of the divine'||

||[[Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers]]||1854 - 1918||Outer head of G.'.D.'.||

||[[A.E. Waite]]||1857 - 1942||Rider-Waite tarot. Had Levi's writings translated||

||[[Rudolph Steiner]]||1861 - 1925||Anthroposophy -- 'knowledge of man'||

||[[W.B. Yeats]]||1865 - 1939||Poet, Nobel prize-winner, and initiate of G.'.D.'.||

||[[G.I. Gurdjieff]]||1872 - 1949|| ||

||[[Aleister Crowley]]||1875 - 1947||(you know this one)||

||[[Frieda Harris]]||1877 - 1962||Painted Thoth tarot||

||[[Leila Waddell]]||1880 - 1932 ||LAYLAH, the Scarlet Woman||

||[[Austin Osman Spare]]||1886 - 1956 ||Artist. Originator of Sigil Magic||

||[[Dion Fortune]]||1890 - 1946|| ||

||[[Israel Regardie]]||1907 - 1985||Crowley's secretary. Originator of Middle Pillar meditation||

||[[Jack Parsons]]||1914 - 1952||Rocket scientist||

||[[Rosaleen Norton]]||1917 - 1979||Australian artist. 'The witch of King's Cross'||

||[[Kenneth Grant]]||1924 - || ||

||[[Steffi Grant]]|| || ||

||[[Robert Anton Wilson]]||1932 - never || ||

||[[Malaclypse the Younger]]|| ||Discordia !||

||[[Alan Moore]]||1953 - ||Comic writer||

||[[Peter Carroll]]||1953 - || ||

||[[Phil Hine]]|| || ||

||[[Grant Morrison]]||1960 - ||Comic writer||

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++Q: You've referred to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminates_of_Thanateros Illuminates of Thanateros] as the "magical heirs to the "Zos Kia Cultus" and as "a satrap of the Illuminati," and in the flow chart on page 8 of the Weiser edition of [http://www.chaosmatrix.org/library/chaos/texts/excerpts2.html Liber Null], you make I.O.T. look like the culmination of everything from Sufism to Freemasonry. How do you answer critics who say that this is pretentious?++

++A: The chart in Liber Null was presented to show the development of certain traditions of esoteric ideas; each of the groups shown appears to have taken some inspirations from one or more older groups and added something of its own. Each group may be considered as the "Illuminati" of its era in the sense that it possessed the keys to the next advance of enlightenment. This, I believe, is all the Illuminati actually consists of, and I like to think that Chaos Magic is the obvious esoteric current for the postmodern era.++

Peter J. Carroll Interview Excerpt [http://www.philhine.org.uk/writings/ess_petecint.html From Abrasax Magazine, Vol.5, No.2.]

There seems to be a trend developing where the number of overlapping traditions is increasing and the time it takes to mutate new traditions is decreasing. You could for example draw a line from the IOT to [http://www.meta-magick.com/whatismm.html Meta Magick].

Carroll explains:

++Whenever history becomes unstable and destinies hang in the balance, then magicians and messiahs appear everywhere. Our own civilization has moved into an epoch of permanent crisis and upheaval, and we are beset with a plague of wizards. They serve an historic purpose, for whenever a society undergoes radical change, alternative spiritualities proliferate, and from among these a culture will select its new worldview.++

++Its for the wizards to determine how that new spirituality will manifest. Most will end up crying in the wilderness or being put to the stake in various ways, but a few will bequeath to humanity a greater gift than they realise.++

++Psychonaut++ ''p113''

== See Also ==

*[Wiki:Qabalah Qabalah]

*[http://deoxy.org/index/Magick Magick]